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  • stanleytweedletoAsklemmyWhy did reddit not buy apollo?
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    2 years ago

    when companies get too big, the C-level executives lose visibility about what the needs of the actual users are and instead

    I think that cycle is universal. As any organization or group becomes increasingly stratified the decision makers at the top lose any connection to the foundations of prosperity that allowed to to grow and stratify in the first place.

    I imagine it like a city on a mountain. As the city grows wealth and status concentrate at the top. That’s normal and beneficial at small scales. But at a certain point the top moves above the cloud layer and can no longer see the base of the mountain. After that point those at the top start to forget how the mountain works and believe the cloud layer is part of the structure and their decisions become increasingly disconnected from any reality below that cloud layer.

    And our globally connected society keeps those above the cloud layer in closer contact to the tops of other mountains than to the base of their own.







  • Pro-Trump conservatives are therefore faced with the daunting task of explaining why it is actually good for an ex-president to illegally keep U.S. atomic secrets lying around his golf club, show off secret military plans to friends as if they were souvenirs, and then refuse to return those documents upon the government’s request.

    They don’t have to explain it, it just feels right and anyone who disagrees is anti-American. Also buttery males.


  • stanleytweedletoTechnologyHow Could A.I. Destroy Humanity?
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    2 years ago

    Show me a computer that can power and maintain itself and I’ll start worrying.

    The risk AI poses is the same as fossil fuel or nuclear weapons, human decisions are the problem.

    But the cool new thing is because humans struggle to understand the difference between a calculation and a decision, we can blame AI for any harmful decisions we make based on its calculations.










  • stanleytweedletoRedditHow much karma are you burning?
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    2 years ago

    PowerDeleteSuited my 10 year old acct history with ~650k comment karma. Took half a dozen runs. Not deleting the account bc I don’t want that username recycled but otherwise done. Actually kind of nice to move on and back to a smaller but more committed userbase.